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Lombard, Illinois, the Glossary

Lombard is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.^[1]

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Addison Township, DuPage County, Illinois

Addison Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA.

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Addison Trail High School

Addison Trail High School (ATHS) is a public four-year high school in Addison, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in DuPage County, United States.

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Addison, Illinois

Addison is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Addison, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and villages in Illinois.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Area codes 630 and 331

Area codes 630 and 331 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for portions of Chicago's near and far western suburbs, including the majority of DuPage County, Illinois.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County, Illinois

Bloomingdale Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA.

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Bob Schacht

Robert Earl Schacht (born January 24, 1950) is an American stock car racing driver.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

The Chicago and North Western was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad

The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service on its line between Chicago and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin, Illinois.

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Chicago Great Western Railway

The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City.

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Chicago–Kansas City Expressway

The Chicago–Kansas City Expressway is a highway that runs between Chicago, Illinois, and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Civil township

A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Dallas Frueh

Dallas Frueh (born October 26, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No.

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Daniel M. Tani

Daniel M. Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut.

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Douglas Darien Walker (born November 17, 1981) is an American comedian, film critic, actor, and YouTuber.

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Downers Grove, Illinois

Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Downers Grove, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and villages in Illinois.

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DuPage County, Illinois

DuPage County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. Lombard, Illinois and DuPage County, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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DuPage River

The DuPage River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Elburn, Illinois

Elburn is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Elburn, Illinois are villages in Illinois.

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Ellen A. Martin

Ellen Annette Martin (January 16, 1847 – March 13, 1916) was an early and little-known American attorney who achieved an early victory in securing women's suffrage in Illinois.

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Elmhurst, Illinois

Elmhurst is a city mostly in DuPage County and overlapping into Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a western suburb of Chicago. Lombard, Illinois and Elmhurst, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area.

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Farmers' market

A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Food cooperative

A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative, rather than a private or public company.

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Galena and Chicago Union Railroad

The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois.

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Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Glen Ellyn, Illinois are villages in Illinois.

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Glenbard East High School

Glenbard East High School, or GBE, is a public four-year high school located in Lombard, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, in the United States.

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Glenbard South High School

Glenbard South High School (GSHS) is a public four-year high school located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States.

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Glenbard Township High School District 87

Glenbard Township High School District 87 is based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and consists of Glenbard South, Glenbard North, Glenbard East, and Glenbard West high schools.

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Glenbard West High School

Glenbard West High School is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Ellyn Avenue and Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Glendale Heights, Illinois

Glendale Heights is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Glendale Heights, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and villages in Illinois.

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Great Western Trail (Illinois)

The Great Western Trail is a rail trail in Illinois, United States.

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Harold Gray

Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip Little Orphan Annie.

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Helen M. Plum Memorial Library

The Helen M. Plum Memorial Library is a public library in Lombard, Illinois.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Prairie Path

The Illinois Prairie Path (often called the Prairie Path and abbreviated IPP) is a network of of bicycle trails, mostly in DuPage County, Illinois.

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Illinois Route 38

Illinois Route 38 is an west–east state highway that runs across northern Illinois.

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Illinois Route 53

Illinois Route 53 (IL 53) is an arterial north–south state highway in northeast Illinois.

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Illinois Route 56

Illinois Route 56 (IL 56) is a east–west state highway in northern and northeastern Illinois.

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Illinois Route 64

Illinois Route 64 (IL 64, Illinois 64) is an east–west state highway in Northern Illinois.

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Interstate 355

Interstate 355 (I-355), also known as the Veterans Memorial Tollway, is an Interstate Highway and tollway in the western and southwest suburbs of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Interstate 88 (Illinois)

Interstate 88 (I-88) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that runs from an interchange with I-80 near Silvis and Moline to an interchange with I-290 and I-294 in Hillside, near Chicago.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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James Marcello

James J. Marcello (born December 13, 1943), also known variously as "Little Jimmy", "Jimmy Light" and as "Jimmy the Man", is a crime boss who was the boss for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization during the early and mid 2000s.

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JCPenney

Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is an American department store chain that operates 663 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

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Lilacia Park

Lilacia Park, an garden, is located at 150 South Park Avenue, Lombard, Illinois.

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Lisle, Illinois

Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Lisle, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and villages in Illinois.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services.

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Lombard, Illinois

Lombard is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. Lombard, Illinois and Lombard, Illinois are 1869 establishments in Illinois, Chicago metropolitan area, Populated places established in 1869 and villages in Illinois.

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Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958) is an American actress and singer.

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Metra

Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads.

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Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois

Milton Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA.

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Montini Catholic High School

Montini Catholic High School (often shortened to Montini) is a co-educational, college preparatory, high school, run by the Christian Brothers in Lombard, Illinois.

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Morris the Cat

Morris the Cat is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Oak Brook, Illinois

Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Lombard, Illinois and Oak Brook, Illinois are Chicago metropolitan area and villages in Illinois.

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Onondaga, New York

Onondaga is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States, encompassing 65 square miles.

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Pace (transit)

Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Plain White T's

The Plain White T's is an American pop rock band from Lombard, Illinois, formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, and Ken Fletcher, and joined a short time later by Steve Mast.

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Potawatomi

The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Real estate appraisal

Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value).

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Russ Gamester

Russell (Russ) Gamester, born on January 9, 1965, in Lombard, Illinois, is an American auto racing driver.

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Sacred Heart Church (Lombard, Illinois)

Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Lombard, Illinois.

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Sheldon Peck

Sheldon Peck (August 26, 1797 - March 19, 1868) was an American folk artist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, and social activist.

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Stagecoach

A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.

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Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

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Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn (born) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century.

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Union Pacific West Line

The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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Villa Park, Illinois

Villa Park is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, within the Chicago metropolitan area. Lombard, Illinois and villa Park, Illinois are villages in Illinois.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard,_Illinois

Also known as Babcock's Grove, Lilac Time in Lombard, Lombard, IL, Lombard, Ill., UN/LOCODE:USLOM.

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